44 MEMOIRS OF THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM 
The similarities in shape and ornamentation between the metates of Guanacaste 
and those of Porto Rico and other islands of the West Indies have been pointed out 
by Dr. J. Walter Fewkes and others. 
Description of some of the most interesting forms of the metates of the Velasco 
collections and of specimens purchased by me at Las Guacas, in 1896, from Antonio 
Carillo follow. 
Fig. 65. Side view of metate in collection of Mr. George G. Heye. 4. 
1. Metates with cylindrical er conical legs. 
1. (Pl. X, Figs. 3, 4; Pl. XI, Fig. 1.) Large rectangular metate. On the 
upper side there is at each end a broad band, filled with a guilloche design. Inside 
the frame there is a design, which judging from less conventionalized figures on 
other metates from this burial-ground, may stand for two opposing human figures 
with large head-dresses. The legs of the metate are ornamented with encircling and 
longitudinal grooves. Broken in two places; one leg missing. This metate had 
been used in Carillo’s household., but was discarded and procured for the Stockholm 
Museum. Length 64.5 em., breadth 38.5 ecm., height 21 em. 
2. (Pl. XI, Figs. 2, 8, 4.) Large, rectangular metate with the upper side orna- 
mented at each end by a broad band with a guilloche design. The under side is 
enframed by four narrow, parallel bands, and this frame encloses what probably 
stands for the detached limbs of two opposing highly conventionalized human 
figures. The legs of the metate are encircled by parallel grooves. One leg having 
been broken off, I was able to secure this superb specimen from Carillo for the 
Stockholm Museum. Length 61 cm., breadth 41 em., height 21.6 em. 
3. (Pl. XII, Figs. 1, 2.) Metate with the upper side of the plate plain, the 
under side covered with a realistic figure of a monkey with outstretched limbs and 
with the end of the tail curved. The legs of the metate are encircled at the middle 
with two grooves from which four or five straight parallel vertical grooves descend 
to the end of the legs. Length 48.5 em., breadth 28 cm., height 16 cm. (Cat. 
No. $332.) 
